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RECOMMENDED: Viewfinder Case Studies from the Responsible AI in Libraries and Archives Project

Sep

30

2026

The IMLS-funded Responsible AI in Libraries and Archives project has published four new case studies, released in September 2026, that show how its Viewfinder toolkit works on real AI projects. Viewfinder is a participatory toolkit for ethical reflection on AI in libraries and archives, organized around different stakeholder perspectives. It was developed by librarians and ...

PROJECT: Archive Stories

Sep

30

2026

Archive Stories is an open-access website about working with creative and non-traditional archives. It is curated by Sara Salem and Mai Taha, designed by Frederick Kannemeyer, and funded by the London School of Economics and Political Science. Rather than offering a new definition of the archive, the curators focus on archiving as a creative practice ...

PROJECT: Old Toronto

Sep

30

2026

Old Toronto turns more than 37,000 archival photographs from the City of Toronto Archives and Toronto Public Library into walking tours of the city. The tool builds on OldTO, the geocoded photo map originally created by Sidewalk Labs and later revived by Back Lane Studios. While OldTO showed what was photographed in a given place, ...

PROJECT: Trans Pride Initiative: Prison Data Explorer

Sep

30

2026

The Prison Data Explorer is a project of Trans Pride Initiative (TPI), a Texas nonprofit, that presents live data from TPI’s correspondence with trans and queer people in prison, primarily in Texas, but also in other state and federal prison systems. The Explorer charts more than 28,000 letters exchanged with over 2,000 people, including the ...

RESOURCE: Guidance for Indigenous Collections and Data

Sep

30

2026

Two organizations, Local Contexts and Creative Commons, have collaborated to create guidelines that “share commitments to equitable knowledge sharing, proper attribution, and respect for diverse cultural and community protocols,” in support of cultural heritage institutions that are creating access to data for Indigenous collections. These guidelines go beyond the usual protocols of copyright, priming museum, ...

POST: Projecting Emotions: Mercator and Equal Earth

Sep

30

2026

In this blog post, Stuart Dunn explains the implications of a vote of the United Nations General Assembly to adopt the Equal Earth projection over the more commonly used Mercator map, which privileges the degrees of travel between to points on a sphere to surface area. In addition to explaining the differences between the two ...

POST: What’s the Deal with Topic Modeling?

Sep

30

2026

Alyssa Virker, with the Data Sitters Club, shares a very practical, no-frills post about topic modeling as part of its TL;DR series, which is aimed at people who “don’t know if digital humanities is right for you.” This post is ideal for introducing students to the method as a form of inquiry and exploration, in ...

EVENT: Transitions of Leadership: Succession, Stewardship, and Sustainability in the Digital Humanities

Sep

30

2026

An online conference on November 16, 2026, hosted by Canadian HSS Commons, will discuss how digital humanities projects that “span multiple generations of scholars, infrastructures, and institutions” can teach future scholars about project management, transitions, and tools. The format of the conference will be pre-recorded videos, accompanied by live conversation. Registration is free, but required ...

EVENT: Semantic Web in Libraries Conference

Sep

30

2026

SWIB26, the 18th Semantic Web in Libraries conference, will take place online November 16–18, 2026. Organized by ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics and the North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Centre (hbz), SWIB brings together practitioners working on linked open data in libraries, along with participants from scholarly communications, museums, archives, and related fields. This ...

CFP: Global Digital Humanities Symposium 2027

Sep

30

2026

The Global Digital Humanities Symposium invites proposals for its 12th annual event, taking place both virtually and in person May 2027. The Call for Proposals is open until November 18th, 2026. The organizers especially welcome submissions on the following topics: Multilingualism and language justice in DH Indigenous led DH work and community engaged collaborations in ...

CFP: DH Benelux 2027, “Where Is Digital Humanities?”

Sep

30

2026

DH Benelux 2027 will be held July 7–9, 2027, at the Université libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, with pre-conference workshops on July 6. The theme, “Where Is Digital Humanities?”, asks where DH does its work after LLMs: with whom, on what terms, and at what cost. The call is organized around three axes: DH’s disciplinary ...